Lesson 4: Working With CKR Energy

Learning ObjectivesThis week, you will:

Identify the 5 major energy bodies

Identify, locate and describe the 7 major chakras

Learn "The Power Symbol" within the Reiki system

Energy Bodies

Your human body consists of layers of energy, creating one's 'energy field'. The first layer is your physical body. The outer layers of energy are commonly referred to as your aura. While other energy medicine systems add the 'atmic' and 'cosmic' bodies to their understanding of the energy field, we will only be reviewing 5 major energy bodies here.The Physical Energy Body

The first layer.

Our physical selves.

The Etheric Energy Body

The second layer.

Located approximately one quarter to one half an inch (not more than one inch) from the physical body.

Energy medicine practitioners often describe it as feeling webby, sticky, or stretchy.

Referred to as the blueprint or holograph of the physical body.

The Emotional Energy Body

The third layer.

Centrally located among the five layers

The keeper of our feelings

Can be quite volatile when we are experiencing extreme high and low emotions.

The Mental Energy Body

The fourth layer.

Where our ideas and perceptions move from.

Where our belief systems and personal truths are stored.

Where our thoughts are assimilated and sorted out.

The Spiritual Energy Body

The fifth layer.

Where our "consciousness" or "higher awareness" resides.

Sensing Energy

Not every one does feel or see energy, yet Reiki will still work for them just as well as it works for those who do feel the energy. Here are a couple of activities to practice sensing energy:

A. Body Scan

Rubbing your hands together.

Starting at the head and working down the body, the arms, & the legs: Run your hands over your own body or that of another, holding your hands about an inch away from the physical body.

Notice differences in the energy field, such as temperature, circulation, smoothness, thickness, density, and colour.

B. Energy Ball

Rub your hands together.

Slowly separate your hands, keeping your fingers loose and cupped, until they are about 6" apart from each other.

Move the hands closer together as though they were magnets, pulling together.

Slowly move your hands apart again, as through they were repelling eachother.

Repeat 3 & 4, moving them in and out, feeling the energy moving between your hands.

OPTIONAL: After doing the energy ball, do the scan above.

The Chakras

Chakra is an old Sanskrit word meaning 'wheel'. The Chakras are energy centers along the central meridian of the body. Although they were not used in the traditional forms of Reiki when it first came from Japan to the West, the chakra system has taken hold in North America, Europe, and even Japan as a complementary system for understanding and working with energy. During a session, it can be helpful to have associations to help you receive healing messages more clearly.

Each of the chakras will be described here in terms of location, emotional issues that come up there, and the major organ / endocrine gland that they are related to.

The Major Endocrine Glands

The Locations of the 7 Major Chakras

1. RootRepresents our foundation and feeling of being grounded.

Location: Base of spine in tailbone area.

Organs: Large intestines, rectum, also influences kidneys.

Emotional issues: Survival issues (money, food, safety).

2. Sacral/ NavelOur connection and ability to accept others and new experiences.

Meditation ActivityEach of the chakras and the key words associated with them can be used in meditation to zone into the energy of that center, promote healthy functioning of that center, and increase your sensitivity to its energy:

Cho Ku Rei

The Power Symbol, Cho Ku Rei

The first Reiki symbol as taught by the teachers before us for Level 1, is “Cho Ku Rei” (pronounced show-koo-ray), also known as The Power Symbol.

Its Mantra is “Direct [Divine/God/Source] Energy Here”, and it is used to:

Clear and/or charge a room.

Charge any of the elements (earth, air, water, fire).

Open a treatment session.

Reduce stress, dis-ease, pain, and insomnia.

Give strength, rejuvenate, boost immune.

Focus the healing energy on a particular area of a person’s body, by tracing and patting it into the subtle body of the area.

Sealing a client at the end of a treatment, by tracing it over their entire body and intending a seal of the treatment, in divine wisdom and love.

Drawing CKR

How to draw Cho Ku Rei

While the symbol itself has no power of its own, it works as a method for a Reiki Practitioner to connect with and focus the Reiki energies.

It is primarily used at the start of a Reiki session to get the energy running, or mid-session to help boost the energy.

To draw it, begin from the left and draw towards the right. It can be drawn in reverse as well (and many do), however the drawing here depicts how it was taught to us in our lineage.

Personal Reflections

1. Practice drawing CKR in your Reiki Journal, and write your impressions, words that come to mind, feelings about using the symbol and its connection to drawing down Divine / God energy.

2. Reading through the Chakras and their locations / associations, take some time to "sit" with each of them through the day, and just be mindful of how they feel in your body. Which do you feel are under-active? Over-active? Which are healing?

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